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Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Sam Yates

Mixed ability stained-glass workshop. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and those with some experience.

Your incredibly talented tutor, Samantha Yates, will tailor the sessions to your experience level so you'll really get the most from this fabulous workshop.

During the session, you will learn how to use glass tools to cut and shape glass, understand the difference between copper foil and leaded technique and be able to produce a simple design which you will take home with you!!

Pottery Taster Session - Hand-building and Throwing on the Wheel

Join us at Swarthmore and spend some time with professional ceramicist Jeannie Waterhouse for our Pottery Taster session!

Whether you want to try a new skill or create a masterpiece this three-hour taster class will give you a chance to experience what it is like to work with clay. You will learn how to create hand built pieces using coiling techniques, and decorate your work with coloured slip and glazes.

Community Sound Bath

Join us for a gentle evening of relaxation and connection through sound: A 1 hour journey of Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, soft ambient tones, and soothing visuals. Afterwards, we’ll share wholesome chats and chill vibes over some nourishing homemade herbal tea. 

Kids Breaking Class

What is the class?

In these sessions, Kieron is going to teach you the 4 fundamentals of Breaking: Top Rock, Footwork, Power and Freezes. As you build an understanding of the foundations, you will start to play with these movements, learn about HipHop culture and get involved within our local community at jams, events and further opportunities.

We run weekly classes on Wednesday’s 5pm-6pm at Open Source Arts, Leeds. These sessions are for ages 7+ and are term time only at the cost of £8 per person.

Lego Mill Making with Joel from Get Playing!

Drop-In Family Workshop: Build, Learn & Play with LEGO.

Join us for a hands-on, family-friendly workshop where creative play meets engineering!

Build your own vehicles, from tractors, aeroplanes, diggers and cranes, and maybe even a working mill!

Discover how machinery has evolved over the years during a fun and educational session for kids and grown-ups alike. Bring your imagination and get building!

Suitable for adults and families with children aged 4+

Your ticket will give you 1 hour of building time - tickets will be available on the day.

Hip Hop History Day

Celebrate Hip Hop History at Leeds City Museum with this event including live music, Q&As, workshops and loads more!

Join us at Leeds City Museum for a family fun day celebrating of Hip Hop history! With live music, Q&A, deejays, Emcees, Beatboxin’ B boys B Girls, graffiti art, production, and workshops.

In association with the Hip Hop Historian Society. 

Sew-Able

Do you want to learn to sew? Or do you want to pick up the needle again after not sewing for a while? Or do you just want to improve your stitching? 

Well this six-week sewing course is for you. You will learn how to thread a sewing machine, sew the basics and meet like minded people. 

Spirograph Family Fun Day

Add your work to our giant spirograph this half term.

Join us in the main hall of the museum to add your own artistic flair to a giant spirograph artwork. Feel nostalgic about this quirky, engineered game, and introduce the kids to it too!

Meet artist Lesley Halliwell, and find out about her dazzling, spiralling artworks. Make a spirograph keepsake to take home too.

This day is kindly sponsored by the Grammar School at Leeds.

Super Spirographs

Get into a spin with our super spirograph school holiday activities!

We're having a nostalgic week with activities inspired by the Spirograph, which was invented right here in Leeds by engineer Denys Fisher!

There'll be a trail around the museum which will give you a chance to explore the galleries whilst looking out for items on your trail.

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